Howard Hughes
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Description
Howard Hughes is the author of a dozen books on film and historical subjects, including 'Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult', 'Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood' and of the Filmgoers' Guide series, 'Outer Limits', 'When Eagles Dared', 'Crime Wave', 'Once Upon a Time in the Italian West' and 'Stagecoach to Tombstone' (all from I.B. Tauris). He is a contributor to 'The James Bond Archives', the official fiftieth anniversary celebration of 007, and a regular columnist on film magazine 'Cinema Retro'.
Books
The American Indian Wars
Before Europeans came to the vast region that is now the United States, over one million Native Americans inhabited the land, from the Northern ice wastes to the Southern swamps, from the Eastern forests to the Western plains. After four centuries of nearly continuous warfare, fewer than four hundred thousand remained. This is the dramatic, heartrending account of their survival...against all odds.
The outlaw
Spaghetti Westerns
A new guide covering the spaghetti western genre,which not only made a star out of Clint Eastwood,Klaus Kinski, Lee Van Cleef and many others but,was a major influence on such directors as Sam,Peckinpah and Quentin Tarantino. Everything you,need to no in one handy volume.
Stagecoach to Tombstone
The author explores the western, running from John Ford's 'Stagecoach' to the revisionary 'Tombstone'. He explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history.
The racket
A straight-arrow cop and an old-school gangster find a common foe: big shots who run crime like a corporation.